The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25
Farm and Stock Notes.

Do all you can to encourage the birds.
They are your best friends Protect them
and their nests, and keep watch ON the
family cats, which do the birds much dam
age.
White clover is the best grass that can be
grown for sheep Sheep are not partial to
tall grass, and the white clover will always
be selected by them in preference to other
kinds.
Sow early beets as soon as the ground
shall be warm. Use plenty of well-rotted
stable manure and also about three pounds
of nitrate of soda on each square rod of
ground.
The Colorado Farmer thinks polling not
only unnecessary but a disadvantage to
Lima beans, and advises the clipping off of
the climbing tendrils, thus making the plants
low and bushy and filled with pods
1t is not an uncommon error to suppose
that animals that eat but little are the most
profitable. So long as an animal is capable
of digesting and assimilating it, the greater
the amount of food it consumes the more
profitable are the returns; for the proper
ton of the food that goes to supply the
waste of tissue and run the animal machin-
cry is less when large than when a small
amount is eaten.
The first pound, or the first 100 pounds, of
beef, mutton or pork is the most costly. The
greater the weight an animal can be made
to attain III the shortest period of time the
smaller the cost por pound proportionately.
1t requires no more labor to feed a steer
weighing 1000 pounds than it does to feed a
steer weighing 1000 pounds The cost of
production does not depend solely upon the
amount OF food consumed, but upon the
food, shelter and labor.
In sowing clover for pasture it is desirable
To, h. I
the kind best adapted to the land will prob
ably take possession in few years. A va
riety of grasses is always desirable in pas
ture. Some farmers who have plenty of
pasture land are adopting the plan of SOW
ing the seeds of timothy, blue grass, orchard
grass and the different clovers separately,
giving each kind its own space, so as to per-
NIT the cows to select the grasses preferred.
1t has been demonstrated that each indi-
vidual will prefer certain grasses, and that
the herd will separate over the entire pas
ture.
Prof Augur, who has made study of
questions pertaining to the physiology of
plants, explains the chief cause of barren
ness of some wild vines to be unsexuality.
In some cases the anthers are defective with
good stigma, in which case placing fer
tile vine which is perfect in bloom and that
is biseXual, like the Concord, will induce full
productiveness by crOss-fertilization; if, as
is sometimes the case, the stigma is defect
i've, the fertile male pollen will be wholly
imperative, and no influence of culture or
pruning will reach the case with any Ger
tainty and the vine had better be abandoned
and better one put in its place.
Sir John B. Lawes says the German ex-
periments upon cooked and uncooked food
for stock do not show any clear evidence in
favor of the former, and the process of
steaming and other modes of converting dry
food into succulent food have never become
popular among practical farmers in Eng
land, and he is inclined to think that too
much value is placed upon succulent food
as compared with dry food for stock for
meat production; for milk production, espe-
cially where quantity rather than quality is
the object, he thinks succulent food would
certainly have an advantage; but he is
doubtful whether one would produce more
butter-fat than the other.
A correspondent of the Poultry Yard
follows the plan described below, which, if
carefully used, may be safe and effective
He says: 81 make saw benches for roosts-
that is, 1 take 2x4 scantling and nail legs to
them Of the length to suit space and breed.
These, as you will at once see, can be moved
at pleasure when cleaning droppings or for
any other reason that may present itself /;
but the best part of ii is as regards lice
Every week | take my kerosene can and go
to the hen-house, carefully pick up and carry
out of door my saw benches, pour the kero-
sene on them and touch it off; the fame will
quickly run over every part of it and go out
without burning the wood, but every mite
or nit that would have made one, you ara
rid Of forever. | have followed this plan
for some time and have no trouble with
lice y